enum set to string and get sting value when need

Question

I don't know how to do this
I want code like following

enum myenum
{
    name1 = "abc",
    name2 = "xyz"
}

and check it

if (myenum.name1 == variable)

how can I do those things?

thanx.

Answer 1

Unfortunately that's not possible. Enums can only have a basic underlying type (int, uint, short, etc.). If you want to associate the enum values with additional data, apply attributes to the values (such as the DescriptionAttribute).

public static class EnumExtensions
{
    public static TAttribute GetAttribute<TAttribute>(this Enum value)
        where TAttribute : Attribute
    {
        var type = value.GetType();
        var name = Enum.GetName(type, value);
        return type.GetField(name)
            .GetCustomAttributes(false)
            .OfType<TAttribute>()
            .SingleOrDefault();
    }

    public static String GetDescription(this Enum value)
    {
        var description = GetAttribute<DescriptionAttribute>(value);
        return description != null ? description.Description : null;
    }
}

enum MyEnum
{
    [Description("abc")] Name1,
    [Description("xyz")] Name2,
}

var value = MyEnum.Name1;
if (value.GetDescription() == "abc")
{
    // do stuff...
}

Answer 2

According to here what you are doing is not possible. What you could do maybe would be to have a static class full of constants, maybe something like so:

class Constants
{
    public static string name1 = "abc";
    public static string name2 = "xyz";
}

...

if (Constants.name1 == "abc")...